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Issue Details

Issue #21
Published May-June 1947
Cover Price $0.10
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited), Jack Schiff (actual)
Notes same as splash page for the "Script that Was Never Written"

Cover Details

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfie; Andre
Genre adventure
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes same as splash page for the "Script that Was Never Written"
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #3

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Top of the World"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Andre; Jane Miller; Killer McCann; J. Smitherson Malone
Synopsis Jane Miller parachutes to the top of Mr. Everest and the Boy Commandos are sent in to rescue her.
Genre adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Steve Brodie?
Notes pencil and writer credits from complete Jack Kirby vol 3 (Pure Imagination)
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #3 [splash page and select panels]

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Script That Was Never Written"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Andre; Spade Face
Synopsis Rip and the boys make a movie and catch some jewel-theives at the same time.
Genre adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes Splash page is the same as the cover. Credits from complete Jack Kirby vol 3
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #3 [splash page plus select panels]

2 page Professor Pipp filler "A new style of shoe"

Genre humor
Script Jack Farr
Pencils Jack Farr
Inks Jack Farr

2 page text story "Lucky Figuring"

Script Bob Baker
Letters typeset

12 page Boy Commandos story "The Lady Known as Velvet"

Characters Rip Carter; Brooklyn; Alfy; Andre; Velvet
Synopsis Back in New York, Rip seems to be leaving the boys behind when he falls for a girl named Velvet.
Genre adventure
Script Jack Kirby
Pencils Jack Kirby
Inks Louis Cazeneuve
Notes credits from complete Jack Kirby vol 3 (Pure Imagination)
Reprinted in Complete Jack Kirby (Pure Imagination, 1997 series) #3 [splash page and select panels]